Here is the third Wildling archer. As I couldn’t go to Salute last weekend I used my time to paint up the third figure of my Wildling archer unit.
This is another strait build from the Frostgrave Barbarian plastic box.
This time a build only with parts from the Barbarian box. The pictures are taken with a diffuser on my lights I think this gives better quality pictures.
More to come in the near future.
So with Easter out of the way and after a longer brake in painting Game of Thrones related figures, the Westfalia halfmen got in the way, here is the first figure of my Wildling bow unit for Dragon Rampant. The figure is a Northstar Barbarian figure.
The figure is kit bashed with a body and head from the Frostgrave Barbarian set, Arms from the Frostgrave warriors set, and arrows from a Perry war of the roses set.
More to come in the next days. This unit comprises 12 figures.
Here are pictures of my completed halfmen army. There are a few more units like the army standard bearer, and a few more knights on goats etc. I will add these at a later point as I started to build my Wildling army for Got for a brake.
Have you seen this ? Frostgrave Dwarfs, Elves and Goblins as plastic boxed sets announced !
Later this year, North Star Military Figures and Osprey Games will be releasing a new range of fantasy miniatures, beginning with a plastic box set of Dwarf Infantry! Each sprue from this set allows you to build 5 Dwarves armed with spears, hand weapons, or bows, with a huge variety of head options. They are also working on similar boxes for Elves and Goblins! There are no official release dates yet.
More here.
The Lord of Bones, also mocked as “Rattleshirt” by the brothers of the Night’s Watch, is a wildling leader of renown. He is called Rattleshirt due to his armor, which is made up of loosely-tied bones that clatter as he moves. He wears a broken giant’s skull as his helm.(Wiki of Ice and Fire). This is my take of him:
It is a Frostgrave barbarian body with a Frostgrave cultists head and some green stuff for the bones. He leads a 6 man unit of heavy Infantry ( two handed weapons ) for my Dragon Rampant Wildling army.
Hope you like what you see! More of my Wildling army over the next weeks.
Here is the mascot of my Halfmen army. The blue dragon Erwin. He lives beneath the halfmen stronghold called Schalke in the deep , now derelict, coal mines. A vast dungeon which strikes fear into the strongest man. He can be summoned by Otto the wizard to fight alongside the Schalke hafmen host.
The model is by reaper bones and quite cheap for such a big model The painting was done with an airbrush and conventionally with the brush. Feel free to leave a comment or a like if you want.
Here is my halfmen army wizard. He is a summoner of the army mascot Erwin. In real life Erwin is the mascot of the Schalke football club. As I said before Gelsenkirchen and Schalke are the theme of my halfmen army, therefore a mascot has to be. This is the real Erwin:
Of course my Erwin will look a bit more menacing at last he is a army mascot and not one of a football club.
So here is Otto the wizard:
And his apprentice, little Carl ,keeper of the magic book of spells:
As you can see I used a black background for these pictures I think it works better then the white one . What do you think?
So when the summoning spell is cast who will be turning up? Erwin of course but who is Erwin…… More in the next days!
The Shieldmaiden Infantry boxed set is the second hard-plastic kit to be released by Shieldwolf Miniatures. This particular set was succesfully funded during the War is coming: Shieldmaidens Army Reboot Kickstarter in early 2016. Gathering more than $80.000 and backed by more than 550 backers, these miniature were put into production and are now almost ready to be delivered and released for retail. Shieldwolf Miniatures is always trying to improve the quality and detail of their miniatures so let’s take a look if they have managed to raise the bar on these new Shieldmaidens. This modular plastic kits contains 20 miniatures but you can kitbash 24 as there are more bodies than left arms included The full review can be found here. You will find many pictures of the individual sprues in the review. The set is very recommended for kit bashing etc. I will use them for my ongoing Game of Thrones kit bashes. I need some female Wildlings!
I painted up some livestock . Sheep with the shepherd and his dog.
The minis are from Gripping beast when I remember correctly . I had them so many years before actually painting them . You know what it is like living with a lead mountain 😉
Here are some pictures of the shepherd and his Dog:
And some more pictures of all the minis:
There will be more animals an civilians in the future for doing looting scenarios with my Game of Thrones figures.
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